is it fresh’s #BigBangMoment: Becoming a multinational company!

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Time to share a #BigBangMoment from one of our Accelerator alumni with you: is it fresh, from our September 2016 intake, has managed to become a fully multinational company and access the Asian market for their product.

Publish Date

17 SEP 2018

Time to share a #BigBangMoment from one of our Accelerator alumni with you: is it fresh, from our September 2016 intake, has managed to become a fully multinational company and access the Asian market for their product. But that’s only the latest milestone for the startup! Formerly known as “Fedorov”, is it fresh has also recently been awarded €1.9 million in funding, won several startup challenges and got their first paying client on board. Furthermore, the team has grown from three to twenty employees. Read on to find out more about is it fresh’s success story.

is it fresh? - Fighting the World’s Food Waste

For those of you who haven’t heard of is it fresh before, the startup from Jülich in Germany is tackling the problem of food waste. Each of us produces an average of 180 kilograms of food waste each year. Around 30-40 percent of this amount is thrown away due to misconceptions that the food is spoiled just because its expiration date has passed. is it fresh’s printable nanoelectronics addresses this issue, preventing the disposal of fresh food in the future. The startup’s sensors measure the freshness of food in order to overcome reliance on a fixed expiry date. Is it fresh’s technology also informs consumers about the product’s origin, manufacturing date, contents and enables traceability all the way to the farm. Indeed, the “freshtags” are NFC-enabled and can be read out wirelessly!

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Conquering the Asian Market

is it fresh’s success is not limited to Europe - it has also received praise and funding from further afield. The team was selected from thousands of international startups to join the K-Startup Grand Challenge 2017 in Seoul, South Korea. Additionally, is it fresh secured its first paid collaboration with a big Asian corporate. This collaboration already provides the startup with an early revenue stream, which is especially helpful given that their product is not yet fully ready for the market. We are sure, there is more to be heard from is it fresh’s international success soon!

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Looking to the future, it will take around two to three years until the freshtags are mass produced and visible on products in our everyday life. Currently, the team’s main aim is to prepare the product for launch on the market and ensure that it passes all tests involved in this process.?

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Joining our Accelerator 2019

For us, there is great pleasure in supporting ideas like is it fresh’s. Through their time in the Accelerator, their innovative and eco-friendly business model was able to flourish and even became multinational. Our team at the Innovation Center is very proud to be part of this development. If you have a startup with a game-changing idea in the field of Life Science, Performance Materials, Healthcare or additional fields such as Bio-Sensing and Interfaces, Clean meat or Liquid Biopsy, we’d love to help you get your business up and going. Explore new possibilities with us and take the chance to access the Chinese Market extending your stay in our Innovation Hub in China. During the three-month program, your startup will receive up to €50,000 in funding, office and creation space at our headquarters in Darmstadt, and access to advice from a global network of over 50,000 experts. We can’t wait to hear from you!

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